My people that use bitcoin don't install unkown programs on there pc because of security of there wallet.
I for one keep away from exe or installs on my bitcoin pc
Fortunately, this doesn't get installed to your computer (
exe file or otherwise)
The download itself is just what it says in the original post:
"
a WordPress Bitcoin widget"
Emphasis on "WordPress" so like... it's this:
To run WordPress your host just needs a couple of things:
- PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
- MySQL version 5.0 or greater
In other words, this thing goes on servers, not your home PC which is probably windows based & doesn't have a built-in web server capable of running the WordPress PHP plugin anyway... It's a wordpress plugin, so use of this plugin is by its very nature cloud-hosted, and not going to steal your bitcoin wallet or put a virus on your computer any more than using your browser to visit some random person's blog.
Good advice though (
not relevant in this case)
... Don't install random exe files (
again, the thing referenced in the original post IS NOT an exe file)
Edited to add:After a quick review of the source code to this wordpress widget plugin thingy....
The code in the widget appears to do exactly what was said:
Dynamically pulls ticker data from a few exchanges (
not just mtgox) and then displays it as a layout widget in your blog or other site running WordPress open-source content management engine... It looked safe, and it looks like the author reused portions of open-source code released under MIT license...
It's a good thing when someone uses open source code instead of writing the whole thing from scratch. Open Source means less chance for accidental security flaws and buggy screw-ups, or outright doing something malicious, etc. etc. etc.
